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[express-devel] [uh1763@bingo-ev.de: Re: more fixes]
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From: Uwe H. <uh...@bi...> - 2000-03-23 22:16:21
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Hi Brian, I forwarded this to the list, as the mail to bst...@me... bounced... ----- Forwarded message from Uwe Hermann <uh...@bi...> ----- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:30:23 +0100 From: Uwe Hermann <uh...@bi...> To: "Brian St . Pierre" <bst...@me...> Subject: Re: more fixes Message-ID: <200...@bi...> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:45:39PM -0500, Brian St . Pierre wrote: > Uwe - Hi Brian. > I had some time tonight, so I've put some more fixes together. Is anyone attached to the FORK_DOWNLOAD code in open_url.c? Nope. > It doesn't look like it would even come close to compiling or working at all. Yes, I guess so too. I didn't try it, though... > I'd like to get rid of it to make the rest of the code easier to read. > > Please let me know how you feel about this -- if you want it to stay, I certainly won't touch it. Yep. Wipe it for now. If we want to implement something alike later on, we can always grab the relevant code from CVS. I didn't have much time for Express the last few days, I hope I can devote more time to it in future. IMHO, we should try to fix the most annoying stuff, so we can make a first release (announce on freshmeat etc.). Maybe then more developers get interested, and help developing Express. Stuff that, IMHO, needs to be fixed before a release: * HTTP 1.1 and 1.0 should work * segfaults should be reduced to a minimum * Remote images should be displayed * the URL-entry field should work correctly * menu-icons must be there We should also decide whether we want Express to be dependant on GNOME or not, and to which degree. Currently it depends on gtk-xmhtml, which is in gnome-libs. We might use the stock GNOME icons for the menubar, as they're in gome-libs, too. But any futher gnome-specific code(gnome-about-box or gnome-menu etc.) would require gnome-core to be installed, I think. Do we want this? Does it matter? What do you think? If we make Express a real GNOME-app we should then also adapt the GNOME-coding-style etc., of course... Another thing is that GNOME already has a help-browser that comes close to what Express is/does. Some parts are also more sophisticated than the respective functionality in Express currently is. We have several posibilities: * rip code from gnome-help-browser (GPLed too, so no problem) * merge Express into gnome-help * drop Express and help developing gnome-help browser * keep on having two different project, maybe with Express filling some special niche * ... any other ideas? Uwe. -- Uwe Hermann <uh...@bi...> http://www.bingo-ev.de/~uh1763/index.html ----------------------------------------- :wq ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Uwe Hermann <uh...@bi...> http://www.bingo-ev.de/~uh1763/index.html ----------------------------------------- :wq |
